At Cornell, the way things now work is that there is a "Cornell FIRST Robotics Club." The point of the club is to promote FIRST be sponsoring and mentoring the local team (639), and starting new FIRST and FLL teams in the area. Our funding comes directly from Cornell, and presently about 95% of it is used to sponser 639. This year starting a lego league team is in the works. I was pushing for a second FIRST team, but that's not likely to happen this year. This is the last year we are guaranteed funding so I hope that our team can pick up corporate sponsors, otherwise it might be the last year
Patrick
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Systems Engineer - Kiva Systems, Woburn MA
Alumni, Former Mechanical Team Leader - Cornell University Robocup - 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 World Champions
Founder - Team 639 - Ithaca High School / Cornell University
Alumni - Team 190 - Mass Academy / WPI